HealthGrades Gives UCSF Top Marks in Patient Safety, Satisfaction

June 04, 2012
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HealthGrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals, recently published a list of hospitals in the United States receiving the 2012 HealthGrade awards for outstanding patient experience and excellence in patient safety.

UCSF Medical Center was the only California hospital to lead in patient satisfaction and patient safety, according to a new report by HealthGrades.

UCSF Medical Center was the only hospital in California to lead in patient satisfaction and patient safety, according to the new report by HealthGrades.

UCSF Medical Center is one of only ten California hospitals that received the award for patient satisfaction.

For HealthGrades' Patient Safety Excellence Award, based on performance on core measures, 24 hospitals in California made the list and again UCSF Medical Center was among them.

Across the nation, 46 hospitals were recognized as leaders in both offering excellent patient experiences and patient safety, but only one hospital in the entire State of California was a leader in both categories: UCSF Medical Center.

"For more than a decade, we have been on a quest to elevate the clinical services that UCSF provides to equal the quality of research for which UCSF has been so well known nationally and internationally," said Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. "We are very close to achieving that goal."

About UCSF Medical Center
UCSF Medical Center consistently ranks as one of the top 10 hospitals in the United States. Recognized for innovative treatments, advanced technology, collaboration among health care professionals and scientists, and a highly compassionate patient care team, UCSF Medical Center serves as the academic medical center of the University of California, San Francisco. The medical center's nationally preeminent programs include children's health, the brain and nervous system, organ transplantation, women's health and cancer. It operates as a self-supporting enterprise within UCSF and generates its own revenues to cover the operating costs of providing patient care.